OTD, November 10, 1975, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm while crossing Lake Superior with a load of iron ore. All 29 crew aboard perished.
In 1976, Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the fateful ship and her crew in his folk rock ballad, The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. The song peaked at #2 on Billboard's Hot 100, and it returned to the #20 spot following Lightfoot's death in 2023.
Pete Hegseth, you utter and contemptible coward!
“If you want to take issue with what we did in [Iran] or [Yemen] or nabbing Nicolás Maduro, you’re taking issue with the troops and what they accomplished, which is historic.”
--Pete Hegseth
Hegseth is hiding behind the troops he leads. He is saying quite plainly that to question his leadership, his decisions, his counsel to the president, is to besmirch the service people who followed his orders. Poppycock!
Was waiting for a good moment to share my last photo of a lapwing. But I guess today is just as good as any day?
It’s taken in October and this was a lone lapwing among a bunch of geese. Look at those big wings! 🖤
The people in the US have elected a historic new wave of Democrats in the House and the Senate. They do not want the same old, tired Democrat leaders who have failed to provide actual leadership for years.
No to Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader.
No to Hakeem Jeffries for House majority leader.
We can do better. We must do better.
Donald Trump got his wish: he asked Americans to vote like he was on the ballot and boy did they!
Big kids got to reach one hand in and take whatever they could. Little kids got to reach in with both hands. As his kids grew up, he'd hire a neighbor kid to keep track of who's already come around.
The make up of the neighborhood has changed over the decades and the street got busier. These days I don't know how much kids go around marauding for candy.
But we've met several people over the years who know *exactly* what house we live in because of the Halloween bathtub full of candy.
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It wasn't always this way. Every Halloween my wife and I stumble around in the basement with the lights out so no kids will come trick-or-treating. Not that they would. We live on a busy street with no sidewalks. And a dark path to our front door. And there aren't many kids in the immediate neighborhood. But it wasn't always this way.
The previous owner of our house was a rep for Mars candy. On Halloween he'd fill the bathtub with candy.
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Oh! She *is* The One!
Us: The vet said you are the cat whisperer.
Vet tech: Actually, I prefer cat witch.
With all this talk about the Riemann Hypothesis lately, did you know that 8647 is prime? Crazy, right?
My county elections board sent me the following text:
"STUART C, Your ballot has been accepted and counted. Get your virtual Oregon "I Voted" sticker, available in several languages. Choose your favorite virtual sticker at https://www.multco.us/ivoted"
This is how Oregon votes.
Portland, OR voters: In the Voter's Pamphlet for Measure 26-267 (Portland residents decide 2% of city's annual discretionary budget), while there are 15 statements in favor of the measure, all but one of them were submitted by a single person, Edward Kurtz.
That is not the broad base and diverse range of support that it appears at first glance.
Happy 35th birthday, Zohran Mamdani!
Keep fulfilling your dream of making New York City a better place to live for all citizens!
Received vote-by-mail ballots yesterday. I filled mine out last night over a glass of port. My loving wife completed hers in the window seat with a cup of tea. Oban the cat accompanied both sessions.
We dropped off the completed ballots at the public library drop box today. It was all very civilized.
Don't you wish everyone could vote this way? Tell your state legislature to make it so, they work for you!
1 Zacharia = 0.45 Scaramuccis
I gather that can happen when there is absolutely no vetting.
"Oh, but the media treated her so unfairly." Don, if it were somehow a case of the media treating her unfairly, you would still be championing her and celebrating her to stick it to the libs, right? You just need someone to blame for her shortcomings and your shortcomings in a very transactional way. It's what you do. Every time.
My county elections board notified me that my ballot has been mailed to me.
Oregon has had statewide vote-by-mail since it was approved by voters on a citizen initiative in 1998.
AP headline: Trump says Ukraine should get a new president as he blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices
Me: I say US should get a new president as I blame Trump for US diesel prices
I realized this week that we have a skunk or two living on our property and that occasional dank stank hovering in the air is not the neighbors smoking hooch next door.
I learned to juggle in my year off from college, and, when I returned to Reed, juggling was offered as a class in the PE dept. Eventually I became the instructor for that class and have been teaching it for 36 years. Additionally, I was the co-leader of the Yes You Canopy juggling space at the Oregon Country Fair for 22 years. I also founded the Portland Juggling Festival in 1992 which emphasizes workshops and sharing skills, and that's still going strong. What fun!
Last Saturday I was honored to be presented with the International Jugglers' Association's Excellence in Education Award. The presentation was made during the Extravaganza show at the Portland Juggling Festival. I am deeply touched by this award and moved by the audience response.
If you juggle, make some time to go out and teach someone to juggle! If you don't juggle yet, find someone who can teach you or get ahold of the Juggling For The Complete Klutz book.
